FITCHBURG, WI — Fitchburg police said a man was arrested after deliberately striking a 20-year-old Fitchburg woman and their 2-year-old boy with a sport utility vehicle, killing the child and injuring the woman.  Police said Jesus A. Castillo-Dimas, 30, has been booked into the Dane County Jail on tentative charges of first-degree intentional homicide and attempted first-degree homicide in connection with this incident.  READ MORE HERE

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — The beleaguered Penn State University Board of Trustees will meet Friday afternoon, a day after it was named in a scathing report as part of the failures that allowed a longtime sexual predator to prey on boys at the prestigious school. It was unclear if the internal report will be discussed at the board’s regularly scheduled bi-monthly meeting Friday. The investigation, headed by former FBI director Louis Freeh, found that several university leaders had “empowered” Jerry Sandusky to continue his abuse, while Joe Paterno, the school’s legendary head football coach, could have stopped the attacks had he done more. READ MORE HERE

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A 23-year-old Senath, Missouri woman is in jail tonight after allegedly admitting to beating her toddler with a cast-iron skillet. Tameca Michelle Bryant , is being held on $100,000 bond in the Dunklin County Jail while her two-year-old son remains hospitalized. According to reports, the 23-month-old boy sustained injuries that did not coincide with Bryant’s account of the accident.READ MORE HERE

PERRIS — Jurors have convicted a 54-year old man of strangling his wife and her 6-year old daughter after learning the little girl was not his biological child. Michael Barbar was charged with two counts of murder and special circumstances of multiple murders and lying in wait in connection with the November 2009 murders. The bodies were discovered November 13 inside the Barbar family home in the 2800 block of Banner Place in Perris.  READ MORE HERE

 Samuel and Diana Franklin of Butler, Georgia are under investigation for abusing their 15-year-old adopted daughter by making her wear a shock collar and locking her in a chicken coop. According to Daily News, the investigation began in June after the Franklin daughter made the accusation of being forced to wear a shock collar for dogs, but it wasn’t until their arrest Tuesday morning that investigators found the collar. READ MORE HERE

A married couple, David Brain Armstrong, 33, and Danielle M. Armstrong, 22, have been arrested after raping a 5-year-old girl. The couple could face from six to 60 years in state prison if they are convicted. The warrant on Danielle Armstrong states that she committed an act of sexual penetration while performing oral sex on the girl, while David Armstrong’s warrant claims that he forced the innocent child to put her mouth on his penis.  READ MORE HERE

A second teacher from a top boarding school has been jailed after he sexually assaulted young boys more than 30 years ago. Alan Brigden, 67, began sexually abusing boys between 1977 and 1980 at a school in West Sussex before switching to the notorious St George’s School, in Norfolk. Brigden, who had been living in Holland, was extradited in January after police launched an investigation into St George’s school following reports of historic abuse.  READ MORE HERE

VALENCIA, CA — Detectives are searching for an attempted kidnapping suspect in the Santa Clarita Valley. Sheriff’s officials say the man approached a 17-year-old girl waiting to be picked up from Valencia High School around 6:45 p.m. Monday. The girl was standing off Dickason Drive near the theatre building when the suspect parked his truck and approached her, grabbing her by the hand.  READ MORE HERE

FACING 330-YEARS TO LIFE IN PRISON

LAGUNA HILLS, CA– A pastor was convicted today of sexually assaulting five young parishioner boys in his Lake Forest apartment. Oscar D. Perez Perez, of Lake Forest, was found guilty of 22 felony counts of lewd acts upon a child under 14, four felony counts of lewd acts on a child, and sentencing enhancement allegations for lewd acts against multiple victims.  READ MORE HERE

Samantha Deal, 22, from Oklahoma, is suing the state for the death of her 5-year-old daughter, Serenity, who was beat to death by her father in June 2011. Deal lost custody of her daughter, after she was charged with molesting a 10-year-old boy. She pleaded no contest to charges of forcible oral sodomy on a child. READ MORE HERE

SHE DIDN’T WANT ANYONE ELSE TO RAISE HIM

Dying mother, Tenika Revell, from Brooklyn, New York, has been charged with beating her son, Bernard James Revell, 7, to death with a hammer, because she didn’t want to anyone else to raise him after her death. Revell also admitted to choking her son with her bare hands, a belt, and a plastic bag.  READ MORE HERE

Neighbor Kidnapped, Raped & Murdered 6-YO Little Girl

SALT LAKE CITY — A man has been arrested in the death a 6-year-old Utah girl after authorities say he sneaked into her home through a sliding glass door in the middle of the night, then raped and killed the child. Terry Lee Black, 41, a neighbor of the girl who attends the same Mormon church as her family, has been charged with aggravated murder, kidnapping and rape of a child, Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill said Tuesday.  READ MORE HERE

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COOKEVILLE — A 42-year-old Monterey man who communicated with a 12-year-old Cookeville girl via Facebook and drove here to meet her got a surprise when he arrived at the meeting place. Instead of the girl, it was her father who met the Monterey man. The angry dad called police and also hit the man, bloodying his nose, police said. It happened Saturday and the meeting place was Cane Creek Park, says a report by Cookeville Police Officer Anthony Reep. READ MORE HERE

In the neo-natal intensive care unit at the East Tennessee Children’s Hospital in Knoxville, nurses give baby Grayson morphine every three hours to help ease his painful withdrawal symptoms. “He’s currently on 160 micrograms,” said nurse Andrew Pressnell. Other newborn babies shake and scream as nurses rush to administer care around the clock. Nearly half of the infants in the hospital’s NICU are suffering from opiate withdrawal — most from prescription painkillers.  READ MORE HERE